You probably have seen a lot of awesome surreal paintings, but today I want to show you something special – the works by the world’s most popular magical realist. Perhaps, you have guessed the name of the person we are going to talk about. Yeah, he is Michael Parkes, a well-known painter, a sculptor, and a stone lithographer. His metaphysical and spiritual works evoke your imagination and invite you to the dream world. The fascinating atmosphere of these pieces of art is really magnetizing. As the artist says, he depicts in his paintings something more than the average person can see. People always miss something in the everyday life, ‘cause each of us perceives the world around from the subjective point of view. The works from Michael Parkes’ gallery with their philosophical and mythological tone open the gates to the other realms. In this post you can find the most wonderful artworks by Michael Parkes and I offer you to enjoy them together.

Hello folks, today we will talk about Flash and Joomla CMS or how you can combine these two on one website. Flash has always been a technology which delivers extremely spectacular visual effects to the visitors and Joomla CMS is a very popular software used by millions of users from all over the world. So, today we are going to share with you a collection of Joomla modules that will help you to implement Flash technology at your website. We’ve tried to collect various modules to cover different aspects of website’s functionality. As usually, feel free to share your opinion concerning this topic and to forget to take a look at Essential Joomla Extensions you need to Install First.

Since Adobe Photoshop CS5 was released, the designers have been raving about this product. The situation hasn’t changed today and you can still observe the huge interest in it. It’s not surprising, ‘cause Photoshop CS5 offers a number of powerful features that can make your work with it easier. It shows great results and today we will speak about how to use all these advantages in your work. Of course, learning Adobe Photoshop CS5 can be a sort of a challenge, but well-done tutorials can always help you. This round-up features a good collection of simple and video tutorials that will take you from beginner to expert. There is no need to wait, try them out just now!

Kate MccGwire is a London based artist who creates some really haunting art pieces using feathers in a deliberately overwhelming quantity. The serpentine feather formations she makes usually have an uncanny shape flow and invade space with truly uncommon surrealistic effects. The artist sorts and trims these feathers to envisage the very concept of beauty as something more complex. In every artwork the viewer can find different layers of meaning, cultural associations, and various mind states buried within the abstract physical form. Basically, that’s her attempt to have us rethink and reexamine our preconceptions of beauty, which may initially entice and then strongly repel or vice-versa. Contemplate her works and feel keenly this duality of our seeing, feeling and thinking – the ideas will be triggered resonating in your mind.

Speaking about the latest trends in design, we should mention minimal style that gives professional and effective look to the web presence. In today’s post we’ve compiled the variety of minimal WordPress designs in order to show you the most interesting and catchy WordPress layout solutions that correspond the mentioned above design trend. Along with simplicity, minimal design also gives an opportunity to highlight the key points of the website and bring them in the focus of attention. Here you will find minimal WordPress designs of galleries, music bands, studios and 5 minimal WordPress themes as a bonus that you can use for your future projects. All of them feature catchy typography, elegant style, clean layout – everything you need to convey the information in the effective way. All these themes have links to the original sources where you can get them. So, let’s browse this tiny collection!

Perhaps, you have heard about the interesting series ‘Pop Faces’ by Joshua Scott and now you have great opportunity to check it out in today’s post dedicated to the art of this author. The most curious fact about these works of art is that they depict photos of well-known people in the unusual way. Each work is the photo of the crumpled photo of the iconic person. You can say that there is nothing special in such works and I will argue in favor of their originality, ‘cause they offer you to look at the famous people from a different perspective. What can be more interesting than to see the well-known things or people in the new light? In this collection you will find photos of a number of stars that you know quite well. Try to guess who they are.

Sergey Larenkov is a talented Russian photographer that took some old WWII pictures and combined them with perspective-matching photos that were taken nowadays. This simple technique brings awesome results by creating original time portals that help us to see the World War II from the different angle. Here you’ll see some absolutely legendary photos that are contextually mixed up with the present days captured in one single composition. At first it looks like WWII ghosts appeared at the streets of St. Petersburg, Vienna, Berlin and other cities. But if we take a closer look we can see that these photos are bringing us to another reality without any time limits and those are not ghosts. Btw, you can visit Sergey Larenkov’s livejournal page.

You always need to spend some time in order to find the useful information you are looking for. We have decided to help you and share the collection of PHP tutorials in this roundup. Whether you are a professional who knows a lot about this scripting language, or it is not your strong point, this information will become helpful for you. In this collection you will find a lot of PHP tutorials that will teach you PHP from the beginning, and also get useful tips and solutions from the professionals. We hope that these PHP tutorials will help you strengthen your skills in PHP.

This post is dedicated to giving a handful of basic photography tips for the amateur to intermediate photographers. They’ll get essential tips on how to choose filters, lenses and perfect flash units, besides we’ll give important insights on lighting, exposure and composition techniques to go well beyond the typical snapshots and have fascinating digital photos. In addition, this blog entry will provide some guides for other aspects of photography embracing night, underwater, sunset and sunrise, food photography and many more. So anyone interested in capturing more compelling images will find this list indispensable to help you master your camera and get the most from your equipment.

What’s new today? We have decided to offer you this tiny collection of 20 vintage textures that you can use for free for your cool designs. As of late, vintage style is known to be enormously popular among web designers and, to tell the truth, it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere in the nearest future. Using vintage textures, you add the special look to your designs, create the retro mood that add the cool effect to the whole design concept. Feel free to browse this collection of 20 vintage textures and find the items you are looking for!